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We made a demand for the the same wage rates to be paid in the Canadian plants as in the U.S. plants.
Leonard Woodcock

Meaning of "wage rates" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF WAGE RATES

wage rates  [weɪdʒ reɪts] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF WAGE RATES

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Wage rates is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES WAGE RATES MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of wage rates in the English dictionary

The definition of wage rates in the dictionary is rates of pay based on per unit of production or per period of worktime on the job.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH WAGE RATES


acates
əˈkeɪts
annates
ˈæneɪts
Bates
beɪts
carbohydrates
ˌkɑːbəʊˈhaɪdreɪts
cates
keɪts
dates
deɪts
dictates
ˈdɪkteɪts
Fates
feɪts
floodgates
ˈflʌdɡeɪts
Gates
ɡeɪts
Greats
ɡreɪts
othergates
ˈʌðəˌɡeɪts
rates
reɪts
States
steɪts
straits
streɪts
waits
weɪts
Yeats
jeɪts

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE WAGE RATES

wage clerk
wage demand
wage determination
wage differential
wage drift
wage earner
wage freeze
wage incentive
wage increase
wage indexation
wage negotiations
wage packet
wage restraint
wage rise
wage scale
wage settlement
wage slave
wage slip
wage spread
wage worker

WORDS THAT END LIKE WAGE RATES

Callicrates
disparates
domestic rates
Euphrates
Hippocrates
interlocking directorates
Isocrates
lower vertebrates
market rates
mate rates
penalty rates
Polycrates
postage rates
room rates
separates
Socrates
sodium citrates
United Arab Emirates
United States
water rates
Xenocrates

Synonyms and antonyms of wage rates in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «wage rates» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF WAGE RATES

Find out the translation of wage rates to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of wage rates from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «wage rates» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

工资率
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

tasas de salarios
570 millions of speakers

English

wage rates
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

मजदूरी दर
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

معدلات الأجور
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

ставки заработной платы
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

salários
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বেতনের হার
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

les taux de salaire
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kadar gaji
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Lohnsatz
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

賃金率
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

임금
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Upah gaji
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

mức lương
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஊதிய விகிதங்கள்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

वेतन दर
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

ücret oranları
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

tassi salariali
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

stawki płac
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

ставки заробітної плати
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

ratele salariale
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

μισθούς
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

lone
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

lönenivåer
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

lønnssatser
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of wage rates

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «WAGE RATES»

The term «wage rates» is regularly used and occupies the 90.839 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «WAGE RATES» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about wage rates

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QUOTES WITH «WAGE RATES»

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Leonard Woodcock
We made a demand for the the same wage rates to be paid in the Canadian plants as in the U.S. plants.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WAGE RATES»

Discover the use of wage rates in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to wage rates and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
A Classical Approach to Occupational Wage Rates
This theory of occupational wage rates is a classical alternative to human capital theory. It introduces the novel explanatory variable the "net employment reserve"--a means of measuring the bargaining power of employees in an occupation.
David Gleicher, Lonnie Stevans, 1991
2
Wage Rates, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Naval Shipyard: ...
Considers S. 19, to authorize Navy Dept to establish wage rates at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard equal to those paid at Boston Naval Shipyard.
United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services, 1959
3
Davis-Bacon Act: Process Changes Could Raise Confidence That ...
They said that most inquiries originate either from contractors who have access to wage rates on their own projects; unions who have access to collective bargaining rates; or project grantees, such as local governments, who have access to ...
DIANE Publishing Company, 1996
4
Macroeconomics
But what can change short-run aggregate supply? What can shift the SRAS curve ? The factors that can shift the SRAS curve include wage rates, prices of nonlabor inputs, productivity, and supply shocks. WAGE RATES Changes in wage rates ...
Roger A. Arnold, 2008
5
Macroeconomics: A Modern Approach
P a r t 3 Empirical evidence on intertemporal substitution of labor supply George Alogoskoufis (1987b) found, for U.S. household data from 1948 to 1982, that an increase in the expected growth rate of real wage rates by one percentage point  ...
Robert Barro, 2007
6
The Fundamentals of Minimum Wage Fixing
Table. 1. Minimum. wage. fixing. procedures. Table 1 (cont'd) National or regional minimum wage rate set. National or regional minimum wage rate set by government or tripartite body Sectoral and/or occupational minimum wage rates set by ...
François Eyraud, Catherine Saget, 2005
7
Minimum Wage in American Samoa 2007: Economic Report
The Fair Labor Standards Amendments of 1956 extended coverage of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) to American Samoa and provided that the Act's industry committee procedure be used for establishing minimum wage rates. Under the ...
Barry Leonard, 2009
8
Wage chronology: North Atlantic shipping associations and ...
The changes listed were the major adjustments in wage rates made during the period covered. Because of fluctuations in earnings occasioned by premium and penalty rates and other factors, the total of the general changes listed will not ...
United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1980
9
Trade Union Wage Policy
An important study of wage rates, labor costs, and hourly earnings in four industries, published as a monograph of the Temporary National Economic Committee in 1940, reached a similar conclusion. "Just as changes in wage rates do not ...
Arthur Max Ross, 1950
10
Davis-Bacon Act: Methodological Changes Needed to Improve ...
results from the four surveys we reviewed—Florida 2005, Maryland 2005, Tennessee 2006, and West Texas Metropolitan 2006—Labor issued about 11 percent of wage rates for key job classifications using data from a single county ( see fig.
Andrew Sherrill (au)

3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WAGE RATES»

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Budget 2015: The new National Living Wage and you
The announcement of a National Living Wage was the final flourish of a long Budget speech. ... There are different minimum wage rates for different age groups. «BBC News, Jul 15»
2
Senate Republicans block minimum wage increase bill
But on the roster of “fair shot” legislation, the minimum wage increase was a ... The true problem plaguing impoverished Americans is not low wage rates but a ... «Washington Post, Apr 14»
3
What's the Minimum Wage in Your State?
See the below map to see where your state stands. Click the image for more detail from the Department of Labor. (For historical minimum wage rates, click here) ... «Wall Street Journal, Feb 13»

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